Civic Union of Uruguay

The Civic Union (UC) is an Uruguayan Christian democratic political party. It was founded in 1910 by Joaquin Secco Illa and Miguel Perea, and it originally followed social Christianity, although it was rather conservative. The party allied with the Socialist Party of Uruguay and the Communist Party of Uruguay to pass social reforms, and its best legislative result was in 1946, when it won just over 5% of the vote. In 1962, a wing of modernizers within the party founded the Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay, and the current party was founded in 1971 by CDP dissidents who chose not to join the Broad Front of Uruguay in opposition to the military dictatorship. In 2008, the UC made an electoral agreement with the National Party of Uruguay.